[Tony]

Thanks for te reply and the I sight on the decision process.

It seems to be very clear to me that if a day has events, then the day should be clickable. However, if there is nothing on that day, it should be clear why there is nothing clickable. Links should go somewhere!

Think of it in terms of the Calendar widget. The widget only displays a tooltip when there is something to show. The clickable event-less days is like having a tooltip there saying “no events scheduled for today” when you mouse over every event-less day.

Also, I am not an SEO expert in any way, but it seems like a major SEO problem to have an infinite number of links to the same or non-existent information. There should be a fallback to handle cases where users stumble on to dates without events, but by no means should there be a generator of infinite no-event-day links.

[Tony]

Sorry, I forgot to add this was using WordPress 3.3, the most current version of The Events Calendar from .org and Events Calendar Pro 2.0.2 on a fresh install. No other plugins in use and the default Twenty Eleven theme was selected.

[Tony]

I’d have to go verify what actual page I was getting when clicking on a link to a day without any events. I am using a modified list.php though, so I think I got a slightly different message detailing the same situation.

However, my question remains why is there a link generated in calendar view to days that have no events? Seems kind of pointless to create an infinite number of links to an infinite number of days without any events. Why not just generate a a day link on days that have events? That way, you avoid sending crawlers into a never ending cycle of content-less pages.

To clarify, I see this as not so much a technical bug but a logic bug.

[Tony]

Thanks for the response. Can’t wait to hear what Jonah comes up with.

[Tony]

I had the same thing happening on my install. In calendar view, every single day was a link to a 404 unless that date had at least one event.

So, when you crawl the site, you can infinitely find 404 links because you can go forward infinite months. Eventually, each new month will never have an event posted and I was scraping non existent pages into the year 2027 before I saw what was going on.

Why does the plugin create a link to date that has no event? I fail to see the value there…

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